Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barn to South of Fridd-isaf
Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Fridd-isaf, Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, designated on 29 January 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1999
- Locality
- Fridd-isaf
- Community
- Betws Garmon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.05319, -4.12724
- Cadw reference
- 21274
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located directly to the south of the farmhouse at Fridd-isaf.
History
One of the roof trusses of the barn is dated 1612, making it contemporary with the earliest surviving parts of the farmhouse; another truss has the date 1912, which is when the eaves were raised and the barn re-roofed. The building may also have served as a cowhouse.
Exterior
Storage barn. Roughly coursed rubblestone on boulder plinth; slate roof. Entrance through doorway to left in south wall; upper-level hatch with boarded door to east gable end.
Interior
Raising of eaves clearly visible. Roof structure in 4 bays with 3 A-frame trusses, that to east earliest (dated 1612 by inscription) with mortise and tenon jointing; others have collars pegged to the face of the principal rafters. West truss has the inscribed date 1912; this is the date of the raising of the eaves, to which belong the boarded rafters, single purlins and ridge piece. Slate floor.
Reason for designation
Included as a C17 barn, which is probably contemporary with the earliest part of the farmhouse at Fridd-isaf and, together with the other surviving farmbuildings, forms a good example of a moorland-edge farmstead.
Nearby in the register
- Cowhouse to South of Fridd-isafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Fridd-isafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse to South-east of Fridd-isafAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-GonglDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.